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Instance member guarded by static field

Reports @GuardedBy annotations on instance fields or methods in which the guard is a static field. Guarding a non-static by a static may result in excessive lock contention, as access to each locked field in any object instance will prevent simultaneous access to that field in every object instance.

Example:

private static ReadWriteLock lock = new ReentrantReadWriteLock(); //static guarding field private Object state; @GuardedBy("lock") public void bar() { state = new Object(); }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

InstanceGuardedByStatic
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Concurrency annotation issues

Supported @GuardedBy annotations are:

  • net.jcip.annotations.GuardedBy

  • javax.annotation.concurrent.GuardedBy

  • org.apache.http.annotation.GuardedBy

  • com.android.annotations.concurrency.GuardedBy

  • androidx.annotation.GuardedBy

  • com.google.errorprone.annotations.concurrent.GuardedBy

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Java, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024